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Help save Hawthorpe
With your help we can safeguard one of the largest areas of grassland left in Lincolnshire before it is ploughed and lost forever.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust launches major effort to save rare grassland habitat at Hawthorpe
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust has begun work to secure one of the county’s largest remaining grassland habitats: 87.65 hectares of land near Hawthorpe in south-west Lincolnshire, running along the…
Stephen Fry backs The Wildlife Trusts’ appeal on Giving Tuesday
30 by 30 is an “audacious and courageous” ambition
Midland hawthorn
In May, our hedgerows and woodland edges burst into life as Midland hawthorn erupts with masses of pinky-white blossom. During the autumn, red fruits known as 'haws' appear.
Hawthorn shieldbug
Our largest shieldbug, the red-and-green hawthorn shieldbug can be seen in gardens, parks and woodlands, feeding on hawthorn, rowan and whitebeam. The adults hibernate over winter.
The Wildlife Trusts launch £30 million appeal to kickstart nature’s recovery across 30% of land and sea by 2030
Today The Wildlife Trusts launch 30 by 30, a public appeal to raise £30 million to start putting nature into recovery across at least 30% of land and sea by 2030.
Common hawthorn
In May, our hedgerows burst into life as common hawthorn erupts with creamy-white blossom, colouring the landscape and giving this thorny shrub its other name of 'May-tree'.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust celebrates 75th birthday and launches appeal to raise £1 million to help save Lincolnshire’s threatened wildlife
On 2 December 1948 in Lincoln, a young man called Ted Smith signed into being a new county-based trust for nature conservation. A few days later, the fledgling charity would officially take on its…
Love and look after it!
The Wildlife Trusts appeal to people’s love of nature following last weekend’s wildfires, vandalism, littering and disturbance to wildlife
Crab apple
The Crab apple is familiar as a small tree that produces yellow-green, rounded fruit that is used for making jellies and wines. It can be found in woods and hedges, as well as in cultivated…
Oak apple gall wasp
Living up to its name, the oak apple gall wasp produces growths, or 'galls', on oak twigs that look like little apples. Inside the gall, the larvae of the wasp feed on the host tissues,…